Did you know that there are a total of 4,000,000 nurses in the United States only (approximately)? That adds up to 10 nurses per 1000 people, and if you ask me that is not a sufficient number! Statistics actually agree, and if you didn’t know by now, now you know - we are facing a serious shortage of nurses.
In 2015, only 200,000 people chose this career as their life calling. It seems that millennials aren’t choosing this profession as much as others. But there are some promising figures for the nursing profession. There is a slight increase in the number of male nurses, increasing to about 9% of total nurses. There is also room for flexibility in nursing as more and more nurses explore working part-time.

Some nurses are doctors, some of them are professional teachers; but if you are looking for more information about these heroes of health care - here is an info-graphic that will amaze you with 10 interesting facts about nurses.